Harnessing the Power of Big Data in Precision Medicine

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BioData World West 2018 Speakers

Atul Butte, Director of Institute Computational Health Sciences and Professor, Institute of Computational Health Sciences University of California San Francisco

Atul Butte, MD, PhD is the inaugural Director of the Institute of Computational Health Sciences (ichs.ucsf.edu) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics. Dr. Butte is also the Executive Director for Clinical Informatics across the six...

Jennifer graduated from the University of California Berkeley in 1995 with a Ph.D. in physiology. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford and Harvard Schools of Medicine and now serves as the Chief of The Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine for the American Heart...

Martin Akerman, CTO & Co-Founder, Envisagenics

Dr. Martin Akerman is the Co-founder and CTO of Envisagenics, who has created an artificial intelligence platform to identify druggable splicing errors from large amounts of RNA-seq data. Dr. Akerman did his postdoc with Dr. Adrian Krainer and Dr. Michael Zhang at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and...

Slava Akmaev, Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer, BERG Health

Slava Akmaev, Ph.D. is the Senior VP and Chief Analytics Officer at BERG. Dr. Akmaev is the industry leader in AI and machine learning applications in life sciences and healthcare. He heads the Berg Analytics business division and is the chief architect of Bayesian Artificial Intelligence...

Dr. Anna Berry is the Scientific Director of the Personalized Medicine Program at the Swedish Cancer Institute and the Director of Molecular Diagnostics at CellNetix Pathology and Laboratories. She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and completed her post-graduate training ...

Govinda Bhisetti, Principal Investigator, Biogen

Govinda Bhisetti is a Principal Investigator and Head of Computational Chemistry department at Biogen. Prior to Biogen, Govinda worked in the Computational Sciences department at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. for 22 years where he led molecular modeling and drug design efforts on several drug...

Jim Broach, Director of the Penn State Institute for Personalized Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine

Dr. Broach is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State Hershey, Director of the Penn State Institute for Personalized Medicine and Professor Emeritus of Princeton University. Dr. Broach was Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton...

Dr. Brownstein is the Scientific Director for the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research Gene Discovery Core at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She has been instrumental in the elucidation of several new disease genes for conditions such as intellectual...

Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer and Co Founder, SENS Foundation

Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist based Mountain View, California, USA, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, a California-based 501(c)(3) biomedical research charity that performs and funds laboratory research dedicated to combating the aging process. He is...

Gerald Higgins, Professor, University of Michigan Medical School

Dr. Gerald A. Higgins is Research Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan Medical School. His background includes chief of molecular neurobiology at the NIH, VP of R&D of Laerdal Medical Corporation, CIO of MedStar Health Hospital network, several...

Lara Mangravite, President, Sage BioNetworks

Lara Mangravite, PhD is President of Sage Bionetworks, an organization that builds open systems for collaboration in large-scale biomedical research. Recognizing that all research is limited by restrictions placed on the distribution of information, Sage works closely with multiple...

I’m a PI on the Human Cell Atlas Data Coordination Platform, co-PI on an NIH Big Data to Knowledge Center Grant, and committed member of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. Through these endeavors my group has been attempting to define the essential software modules necessary for...

Amit Rastogi, Senior Vice President for Strategy, Growth and Innovation, Inova Health System

Amit Rastogi, MD,MHCM is Senior Vice President for Strategy, Growth and Innovation at Inova, Washington DC region’s leading healthcare system that serves more than 2 million people annually. As part of Inova’s senior leadership team, Dr. Rastogi helps set strategic direction for the organization. ...

Christopher Riley, M.B.A. is the Research Administration Manager for the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine (Institute). Chris is passionate about enabling and advancing the health field to embrace precision medicine. He manages the Institute grants...

The human genome is the biological code that specifies human-beings. Dr. Torkamani’s overall vision is to decipher that code in order to understand and predict interventions that restore diseased individuals to a healthy ground state. He is the Director of Genome Informatics at STSI and an...

Jean Claude Zenklusen was born 1964 in Visp, Switzerland. He earned a Master in Sciences (Biochemistry) from the University of Buenos Aires in 1990. He received his PhD in Cancer Biology & Genetics from The University of Texas, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, in 1995. In 1996, he took a ...

Sandy Aronson is the Executive Director of IT for Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine. His team develops IT infrastructure required to support the evolution and practice of genetic based personalized medicine in both patient facing and laboratory settings. The system ecosystem the team...

Justin Aronson, Founder, VariantExplorer.org

Justin Aronson is a 9th grade high school student and the founder of variantexplorer.org. This website assists laboratories in determining whether their genetic variant classifications conflict with the assessments of other laboratories. The project takes data that was opened to the public by...

Nazneen Aziz, Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Research Bank

Nazneen Aziz, Ph.D. Nazneen Aziz is the Executive Director of the Kaiser Permanente Research Bank. Nazneen’s interest and expertise is in the implementation of genomics in clinical practice. In her previous roles, Nazneen was the Senior Vice President and Chief Research Officer at Phoenix...

Munther Baara, Head, New Clinical Paradigm, Pfizer

Munther has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently Sr. Director of Development Business technology at Pfizer, a worldwide pharmaceutical company. Munther is currently the head of Clinical Paradigm within the WRD-BT Development at Pfizer, Munther is spearheading...

Vik is a Managing Director at Foresite, evaluating and pursuing investments at the intersection of technology and life sciences, including in personalized and precision healthcare.
Prior to joining Foresite Capital, Vik was the Chief Scientific Officer of GRAIL, a life sciences company working to...

Chris Boone, Vice President, Real World Data and Analytics, Pfizer

There are several words to describe Dr. Christopher Boone: health futurist, social entrepreneur, executive, professor, patient advocate, and self-proclaimed “data hippie.” Boone is recognized as being a dynamic, ...

Dr. Michael E. (Ted) Burczynski is a Senior Director and Head of Translational Biomarker Research at Teva Pharmaceuticals. He received a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and conducted his postdoctoral work in toxicogenomics at Johnson and Johnson’s...

Robert Burton, Co-founder and President, Center for Genomic Interpretation

Dr. Burton is the President and Co-founder of the Center for Genomic Interpretation. He has managed external and internal research and development and productization efforts and delivered complex technical projects in clinical diagnostics, genomics database development, and other...

Kay Firth-Butterfield is a Barrister and part-time Judge who has worked as a mediator, arbitrator, business owner and professor in the United Kingdom. In the United States, she is the Head of AI and Machine Learning at the World Economic Forum, based in San Francisco. She is a Founding Advocate of...

Peter Goodhand is a leader in the global health sector as a senior executive and board member.Goodhand played a key role in the creation of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and was appointed as its founding Executive Director in 2014, and as CEO in 2018. Since May 2016, he has...

Abraham Heifets, Chief Executive Officer, Atomwise Inc

Abraham Heifets is the CEO of Atomwise, which uses artificial intelligence to help discover new medicine. Abraham was a Massey Fellow at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Brain Institute, where his doctoral work used machine learning to help plan organic syntheses, a long-standing...

William (Whurley) Hurley, Founder and CEO, Strangeworks

whurley is founder and CEO of Strangeworks, a quantum computing startup based in Austin, Texas. He is the Chair of the Quantum Standards Working Group at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and blogs about quantum computing on superposition.com. His latest book...

Olexandr Isayev, Professor, University Of North Carolina

Olexandr Isayev is an assistant professor at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests focus on making sense of chemical data with molecular modeling and machine learning. Before joining UNC in 2013, Olexandr was a post-doctoral research...

Naveen Jain, Founder & CEO, Viome

Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius and InfoSpace. Moon Express is the only company to have permission...

John Martinis, Lead, Quantum Computing Group, Google Inc

John M. Martinis attended the University of California at Berkeley from 1976 to 1987, where he received two degrees in Physics: B.S. (1980) and Ph.D. (1987). His thesis was a pioneering demonstration of quantum-bit states in superconductors. After completing a post-doctoral position at the...

Prasun Mishra, Founder & CEO, Agility Pharmaceuticals

Prasun Mishra, PhD (Ex-Genentech, Ex-NCI/NIH) is a scientist turned entrepreneur currently leading the scientific, strategic and business aspects of Agility Pharmaceuticals (Agility), based in San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Agility is very promising company pioneering the artificial intelligence...

Alysson Muotri, Director of Stem Cell Program, University of California

Dr. Muotri earned a BSc in Biological Sciences from the State University of Campinas in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Genetics in 2001 from University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil. He moved to the Salk Institute as Pew Latin America Fellow in 2002 for a postdoctoral training in the fields of neuroscience and stem ...

Guna is currently the Global Head of Computational Sciences within Discovery Sciences at Janssen R&D. His team is mandated to provide computational expertise throughout Janssen R&D with special focus on addressing big data analytics in genetics and genomics to advance drug discovery and...

Marvin Weinstein, Co-founder Quantum Insights, Quantum Insights

Today businessmen and scientists alike expect big data to help solve their problems. Unfortunately they don’t really know how to make this happen. Approaches like predictive analytics, deep learning and other another magic bullets all have the same Achilles heel. They either assume a hypothetical...

Richard Wendell, Founder & CEO, tellic

Richard Wendell is a technology executive with over two decades of experience leading data science teams to disrupt legacy approaches to research, development and engineering. Currently Mr. Wendell is the Founder and CEO of tellic LLC, a technology startup that develops artificial intelligence (AI) ...